Pairing Deanna and Troi together definitely seems like it came out of writing their interactions in regards to Alexander. Plus, there's that natural play of opposites between them. And yeah, I'd love to see a show with Worf as captain! Especially since I think today's climate more than ever feels a lot closer to the spirit of social progress Star Trek has always been championing (not to get too political).

Well, the coronals might need something to anchor them to the planet. The surface gravity of a sun is usually much greater than its orbiting worlds. That's the best idea I can come up with offhand, anyway, though your idea that organic life-forms are better suited at "absorbing" the sun's rays (at least from as far away as the planet they're stuck on) sounds good, too. And I also like your thought that daily and/or annual planetary rotation could play some role.

I don't think we need to turn it into a "prudes vs. libertines" sort of thing; in fact, plenty of cults tend to encourage polygamy, anyway. I still favor it as either more guile being done by the church or, my real preference, part of the origin (and feeble justification) for the scientific faction. Other things like farming, construction, even medicine may have regressed to more Luddite-like methods, but the artificial preservation of the population would be harder to refuse.

We should probably start this soon, yeah? Eps typically open with Picard narrating, so I'm willing to go first, but I'll probably need a few days just to get into the right headspace and write something I'm happy with. I'd work on the basic setup and open things up for some of your characters (like Riker or Beverly) somehow. I'll probably also at least name the planet, unless you have suggestions for that or anything else. The rest we can do as we go.